“Jesse,

you’re absolutley right.

I am dying with laughter over this. It sheds light on the conundrum “does
selling things destroy your brain?”. Let me tell it like it wuz. yes it
did, yes it does.
We have to put up with so much of this kidn of nonsense.

Wait. There may be a philologcial detail here. The flier (attached) is
shortened from the magazine. And does mention Pilpot and NOlan. It may
simply be an issue of Config Management.
* * *
I don’t want to stop laughing.

Paul (Holman) emailed me recently about a magickal working he has
undertaken. “call not THAT up which ye cannot put down”, i responded. You
would probably understand what Paul is up to. Dialogue with headless
folksinging demons. That sort of thing.”

* * *

Yes, I do indeed understand those sorts of things. Now it’s time (2:14 a.m.) to go back to sleep. Jess

Hold on! An e-mail attachment from Andrew Duncan explains the fib! He’d altered the text himself on a flyer he’d sent out about issue 19, which wasn’t included with the maga. Here’s the text:

Available now
ANGEL EXHAUST NINETEEN: INVEST IN YOUR ARCH-ENEMY
*pronounce: devastate your Aunt Jeremy

Poems by:
Joseph Macleod Adrian Clarke Alison Croggon
Kevin Nolan Peter Philpott Peter Manson
Chris Brownsword Paul Holman Jesse Glass
Kelvin Corcoran Philip Jenkins Brian Hardie
David Chaloner Wayne Clements John Muckle
Giles Goodland Ralph Hawkins
Colin Simms Elizabeth James
Andrew Duncan Harry Gilonis Marianne Morris

Edited by Charles Bainbridge and Andrew Duncan

Methan Beerlight, postmodern viral marketing consultant, talks to Manly Bannister, Angel Exhaust’s Head of Ideology, about the product conformance issues for no. 19.
Methan: So why is there no blurb?
Manly: We favour calm and serenity. Our contributors look on public image as like having a 13-year old version of yourself following you around talking egocentric nonsense.
Methan: Why did the last issue take 6 years to produce?
Manly: We had trouble finding a café to meet in.
Methan: Why is it called Invest in your arch-enemy?
Manly: We believe the unity of the poetry world is more important than quarrels about fine points of verse regulation. If you can’t kill your neighbours, you have to intermarry with them.
Methan: Did you call for the government to withdraw grants from magazines which published reviews not totally favourable to the poets you publish?
Manly: No, that was someone else.
Methan: Why is it called Devastate your Aunt Jeremy?
Manly: It was a misunderstanding between the two editors.
Methan: Could we just describe the individual poets?
Manly: Poets like Philpott and Nolan are too overwhelming and intricate to be described in a few words.
Methan: I’ve never heard of them.
Manly: Maybe you should read Angel Exhaust.

140 pages available now
ANGEL EXHAUST 19 available for £7 from 12 Eliot Hill, Lewisham, London, SE13 7EB
Cheques payable to Andrew Duncan please.

So “Jen’s” not a fibber after all! My apologies to “Jen” who was just copying from the flyer.

What’s the moral of all this? BUY ANGEL EXHAUST!!!! It’s a great read!!! Laughing, Jess

We were checking the net when we found a little bit of creative editing by “Jen” posted on the venerable Salt Publishing website. She does a little creative editing of the end of a light Andrew Duncan piece which appeared at the end of the magazine. I’ll give the last lines from Duncan and then the last lines from “Jen” as they appear on Saline.

Ducan (pg. 142 of issue 19):

Duncan: Methan: So what’s the poetry like?
Manly: It is full of wonderfully sibilant s and amazingly lateral l sounds. Let me expand on that if you will. Corcoran is like Corcoran. Glass is like Glass. Holman is like Holman. Holman is more like Holman than like Morris.
Methan: I’ve never heard of them.
Manly: Maybe you should read Angel Exhaust.

Jen’s version today on the Saline site:

Methan: Could we just describe the individual poets?
Manly: Poets like Philpott and Nolan are too overwhelming and intricate to be described in a few words.
Methan: I’ve never heard of them.
Manly: Maybe you should read Angel Exhaust.

http://saltpublishing.com/saline/index.php?topic=235.0 is the lnk.

As you can see, this is a blatant fib.

I personally have nothing against philpott or Nolan, but notice that Duncan did not choose to point these writers out. It was quite other writers, myself included!

I’ve written a note to Chris Emery and posted this same note on the Buffalo list and the British poets list. I’ve also notfied Andrew Duncan about this. Maybe “Jen” felt it necessary to talk up Philpott and Nolan because they were personal favorites, but she had no right to misrepresent what Andrew Duncan wrote and post it. That indeed is a perversion of the truth and–sad to say–a lie.